The Recent News links displays the news about GForge, a specific Project, or an event. You can acquire additional information by clicking the associated links.

• Note: News, and Home, concerning additional News information.

Displays a visual graph of the Project’s progress.

This area contains the descriptive text that the project administrator has entered.

This area contains a list of all the members of the project, including members inherited from parent projects or groups.

This displays the hierarchy of the Project and the Projects association with other Projects. The Project Administrator associates each Project with a Parent Project to form a hierarchical association between Projects.

Trove Categorization displays details associated with the currently selected Project. Project Types are setup by the Project Administrator.

Projects, concerning Trove Categorization.

Use Request to Join a Project to become a member of a Project. GForge sends a request to the project manager to accept or deny your request. To join a Project:

• Select the Projects tab.
• Navigate to the Project that you desire to join.
• Click the Request to join project button.
• Enter pertinent Comments about why you desire to join the Project.
• Click the Add button.

Comments Enter any comment to send to the project manager explaining why you would like to join the Project.

Add Click Add to send you request to the Project.